“I made sure that Jay-Z was helping Beyonce out [with the baby], and not leaving it all with Beyonce and the mother-in-law,” he told host Colby Colb on Oct. 19 during a radio show for Cleveland radio station Z107.9.

But the president says his advice to the 99 Problems rapper is just friend-to-friend.

“I’ve gotten to know these guys over the first several years,” he said.“They’re good people. We talk about the same things I talk about with all my friends.”